Rorschach assessment of personality functioning in patients with polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 236-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuula Ilonen ◽  
Panu Hakola ◽  
Matti Vanhanen ◽  
Jari Tiihonen
Keyword(s):  
Coping Style ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Interpersonal Perception ◽  
Test Problems ◽  
Emotional Stimuli ◽  
Exner's Comprehensive System ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
Personality Features ◽  
Verbal Output

Objective: To date no studies have investigated the personality functioning underlying patients diagnosed with polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy (PLOSL) using the performance-based Rorschach test.Methods: We scored and interpreted the Rorschach protocols of eight carefully diagnosed PLOSL patients according to Exner's Comprehensive System. The structural variables in the Rorschach are organised around the seven dimensions of personality functioning that they assess: coping style and resources, organising information, perceiving events, forming concepts and ideas, handling of emotions, self-perception and interpersonal perception.Results: As a group PLOSL patients had many personality liabilities when contrasted with typical avoidant non-patient adults. A majority of patients showed an avoidant coping style (Lambda > 0.99), low productivity and poor verbal output in the low number of responses and few Blends. Also, they showed limited available resources to cope with problem-solving test. Problems in organising information efficiently, and perceiving events realistically as well as signs of disturbed thinking and concept formation were observed in many patients. Handling of emotions was characterised by avoidance of emotional stimuli but at the same time poor affect modulation. Capacities to view themselves and others were thoroughly limited.Conclusions: PLOSL tends to have repercussions throughout the personality functioning. In line with clinical findings and later neuroradiological and neuropathological examinations the Rorschach revealed personality features typical for frontal type of dementia.

Mood, Coping Style, and Personality Functioning Among Adult Bone Marrow Transplant Candidates

1993 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Rodrigue ◽  
Stephen R. Boggs ◽  
Roy S. Weiner ◽  
Joseph M. Behen
Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Bone Marrow Transplant ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Marrow Transplant ◽  
Adult Bone Marrow ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Transplant Candidates ◽  
Adult Bone

scholarly journals Genetic and psychosocial factors for benzodiazepine addiction. An analysis based on the results of the authors’ own research conducted in a group of benzodiazepine addicted and non-addicted individuals

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Konopka ◽  
Monika Mak ◽  
Anna Grzywacz ◽  
Sławomir Murawiec ◽  
Jerzy Samochowiec
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Control Group ◽  
High Accumulation ◽  
Critical Life Events ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Psychometric Measurements ◽  
Personality Features ◽  
Psychological Features

Purpose: In spite of the fact that the addictive potential of benzodiazepine (BDZ) drugs has been known for a long time, benzodiazepine addiction remains a common problem for psychiatry to deal with. The etiology of benzodiazepine addiction is very complex. Among the risk factors, the course of the treatment, demographic status and psychological features of a patient seem to play an important role. The aim of this study was to investigate both psychological and genetic factors differentiating benzodiazepine addicts from non-addicted users.Methods: We analysed a cohort of 120 individuals treated with benzodiazepines divided into two groups: benzodiazepine addicts and non-addicted benzodiazepine users (the control group). In both groups we measured genetic polymorphisms of GABA A2 and MAOA. In both groups some psychometric measurements were performed – we investigated the level of depression, anxiety as a state and as a trait, personality features and the dominant coping style using the Beck Depression Scale, Hamilton Anxiety Scale, Five-Factor Personality Inventory NEO-FFI and the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations [4,10,17,36,41,44].Results: There are some psychological and situational risk factors for benzodiazepine addiction such as high neuroticism, introversion and lack of the ability to release tension through interpersonal contacts, dominance of emotional coping style and high accumulation of critical life events during both childhood and adulthood. The genetic background still remains a field for further exploration.

scholarly journals EXPLORING ALEXITHYMIA IN SOMATIZATION USING RORSCHACH PSYCHODIAGNOSTICS

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 402-426
Author(s):  
Chitrankana Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Akash Kumar Mahato
Keyword(s):  
Stress Tolerance ◽  
Interpersonal Perception ◽  
Sentence Completion ◽  
Somatization Disorder ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Exner's Comprehensive System ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Resistant Patient ◽  
Personality Patterns

It has been classically postulated that alexithymia is related to a pervasive inability of emotional recognition and expression. This leaves some individuals little choice but to somatise unprocessed emotions commonly caused by internal conflicts. The present study thus aimed to explore the nature of conflicts, controls and stress tolerance, affect, self-perception, and interpersonal perception and behavior in somatization patients with alexithymia. 30 individuals of both sexes and of the age range 20-50 years, diagnosed with somatization disorder and alexithymia, were purposively undertaken for the study. Toronto Alexithymia Scale 20, Sack’s Sentence Completion Test and the Rorschach Test – Exner’s Comprehensive System were used to screen for alexithymia, to measure conflicts and the other aforementioned domains respectively. Results revealed that conflicts related to self-concept, sex, and family were primarily present in this sample. Characteristic patterns of underlying vulnerabilities seemed to account for poor stress tolerance, affective complications, negative self-perception, and maladaptive interpersonal functioning. It is suggested that alexithymia and a tendency to develop conflicts in somatization are based on the foundation of certain fundamental personality predispositions. Identifying said personality patterns could aid in appropriate and effective goal-setting in psychotherapy, specific to this otherwise treatment-resistant patient population.

scholarly journals Interpersonal Perception and Pathological Personality Features: Consistency Across Peer Groups

2005 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 675-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan C. South ◽  
Thomas F. Oltmanns ◽  
Eric Turkheimer
Keyword(s):  
Peer Groups ◽  
Interpersonal Perception ◽  
Personality Features

Clinical Findings with SAL Audiometry: Some Further Observations

1965 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-335
Author(s):  
George E. Lynn ◽  
Jack A. Willeford
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Findings

Spinal Impairment Evaluation: Fifth Edition Changes

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Robert H. Haralson
Keyword(s):  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Lower Extremity ◽  
Range Of Motion ◽  
Upper Extremity ◽  
Spinal Cord Injuries ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Treatment Results ◽  
Standard Terminology ◽  
Made In

Abstract The AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), Fifth Edition, was published in November 2000 and contains major changes from its predecessor. In the Fourth Edition, all musculoskeletal evaluation and rating was described in a single chapter. In the Fifth Edition, this information has been divided into three separate chapters: Upper Extremity (13), Lower Extremity (14), and Spine (15). This article discusses changes in the spine chapter. The Models for rating spinal impairment now are called Methods. The AMA Guides, Fifth Edition, has reverted to standard terminology for spinal regions in the Diagnosis-related estimates (DRE) Method, and both it and the Range of Motion (ROM) Method now reference cervical, thoracic, and lumbar. Also, the language requiring the use of the DRE, rather than the ROM Method has been strengthened. The biggest change in the DRE Method is that evaluation should include the treatment results. Unfortunately, the Fourth Edition's philosophy regarding when and how to rate impairment using the DRE Model led to a number of problems, including the same rating of all patients with radiculopathy despite some true differences in outcomes. The term differentiator was abandoned and replaced with clinical findings. Significant changes were made in evaluation of patients with spinal cord injuries, and evaluators should become familiar with these and other changes in the Fifth Edition.

Familial cold urticaria. Clinical findings

1974 ◽  
Vol 110 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Doeglas
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Cold Urticaria

1474: The Urinary Distress Inventory Questionnaire (UDI-6) and Clinical Findings: Do they Correlate in our Office?

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 486-487
Author(s):  
Paholo G. Barboglio ◽  
Brian Cohen ◽  
Angelo E. Gousse
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Findings

Cannabis use in Switzerland: The role of attribution of drug use to friends, urbanization and repression 1The study was supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (Bundesamt für Gesundheit BAG) Grant 316.96.5980.

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Drug Use ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Model ◽  
Cannabis Use ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
Hbsc Study ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Individual Use

Cannabis use does not show homogeneous patterns in a country. In particular, urbanization appears to influence prevalence rates, with higher rates in urban areas. A hierarchical linear model (HLM) was employed to analyze these structural influences on individuals in Switzerland. Data for this analysis were taken from the Switzerland survey of Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) Study, the most recent survey to assess drug use in a nationally representative sample of 3473 15-year-olds. A total of 1487 male and 1620 female students indicated their cannabis use and their attributions of drug use to friends. As second level variables we included address density in the 26 Swiss Cantons as an indicator of urbanization and officially recorded offences of cannabis use in the Cantons as an indicator of repressive policy. Attribution of drug use to friends is highly correlated with cannabis use. The correlation is even more pronounced in urban Cantons. However, no association between recorded offences and cannabis use was found. The results suggest that structural variables influence individuals. Living in an urban area effects the attribution of drug use to friends. On the other hand repressive policy does not affect individual use.

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